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Post subject: Is any painting worth $104 million?
Following the sale by Sothebys of Picassos Boy with the Pipe on May 12th 2004 for $104 million (£58 million) I have had several emails and conversations, plus given a couple of radio interviews, all with the same theme: how can anyone justify such an enormous sum of money for a work of art?
There seem to be a number of issues.
1. Some people are clearly unhappy about such a headline breaking price because it turns this work of art, and works of art in general, into freak shows. People are encouraged to look at them not because of their intrinsic aesthetic or other artistic merits but because of the price tag that is attached to it.
2. Other people seem to be quite relaxed. Their argument is well there are many very rich people in the world, whose wealth is measured in millions. What is a $100 million to them? If that is how they want to spend their money so be it.
3. Others put forward the argument that when $100 million could do so much good in a world still stricken by poverty and disease it is unconscionable to spend such a staggering sum of money on something which is completely useless and provides only self indulgent pleasure.
And there are other arguments and variations on the above themes.
I thought it might be interesting to provide comparisons between a few landmark prices over the last 80 odd years. All of the five works listed made popular headlines and raised similar arguments about the ludicrous sums of money being paid for works of art and the suggestion that the art market could go no higher. The first figure gives the actual price at the date that the picture was sold, the second figure gives the same price adjusted for inflation and todays equivalent. The conclusion is that the prices of headline grabbing works of art are now more frequent than ever, and prices are ten to twenty times higher than the boom years of the 1920s.
1921 Gainsborough Blue Boy £148,000 (equivalent to £4.5 million today)
1970 Velasquez Juan de Pareja £2.3million (equivalent to £21million today)
1987 Van Gogh Sunflowers £22.5 million (equivalent to £39 million today)
1990 Van Gogh Dr Gachet £44 million (equivalent to £61million today)
As a piece of silly nonsense here are some figures that give the price of works of art sold recently that have also grabbed a headline translated into their price per square inch.
Rubenss Massacre of the Innocents sold in 2002 for £49.5 million = £11,000 per square inch
Van Goghs Dr Gachet sold in 1990 for £44 million = £66,000 per square inch
Raphaels Madonna of the Pinks sold in 2004 for £35 million = £341,130 per square inch
Picassos Boy with a Pipe sold in 2004 for £58 million = £45,312 per square inch
Do I have a personal point of view? I accept that rich men and women from the Medici onwards have spent vast sums of money on works of art. I have no real problem when such sums are spent on things, which seem to me to be of extraordinary quality and merit (I would put the Picasso in this category). I do despair when large sums of money are spent on things, which seem to me to be irredeemably flimsy and meretricious. I do also have a problem with greed. I am happy for people to be well and generously rewarded for their efforts and skills but I do sometimes think that the current rewards given to captains of industry, footballers, and others, are generous beyond reason. I am also uneasy with the idea that the only identifiable value for anything, be it goods or services, is what you can sell it for, and that the only security and measure of success in the modern world is how much money you have in the bank. I am conscious that such personal points of view reveal my age, upbringing and education.
However, I have tried to condense all these thoughts into one simple question because, following the emails and other conversations, I am intrigued to know the general mood.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 5:30 pm
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I think that there's a difference between the price that is paid for a work of art in an open market, which is determined by supply and demand, and the value of that work of art in a broader sense. Stories in the media that criticise the sale of a 'pile of bricks' for X thousand confuse these two ideas of value. Simply because it attracts a very high price, a work of art seems to become open to all types of criticism - as if to say, it's not worth that, so it is somehow inferior to that price. In truth there is no way of making an objective link between how good a work of art is and the money that it can be exchanged for, outside of a market situation.
The question, therefore, 'was it worth that much?' could be answered - yes, exactly that amount, because that is what someone paid for it.
If you were selling it, you would probably want to get the best price, especially if you where then going to give that money to a hospital.
The real value of a work of art outside of a market situation is something else. I may wonder past 100s of millions of pounds of oil covered canvas in the National Gallery one afternoon, thinking about my dinner date that evening. Or I may stop and look at one work for some time, and thinking about it will make a great difference to me. And I wouldn't care how much it cost.
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Giles O'Bryen
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The problem is that publicly funded museums and galleries are being priced out of the art market because it is assumed - probably correctly - that people don't want to see 100 million spent on a painting. They would rather have a new school or a hospital, for instance. Nor can public institutions justify such acqusitions as investments, as wealthy individuals and organisations do, because they wouldn't be allowed to sell them.
The upshot is that it is hard for representatives of the public purse to play in the market on an equal footing. We rely instead on curators spotting great art before it gets expensive, and on the philanthropy of private individuals and institutions. In the USA they seem quite comfortable with the latter, although in the UK, with our much broader concept of the common good, we tend to be rather grumpy and ungrateful about it.
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Post subject: Is a painting worth a hundred million dollars
NO, a hospital or a school - or a number of hospitals and schools are worth a hundred million dollars, or NHS dental treatment available to all, but a single painting, NO.
Great art, rare art, breathtaking art is of course worth a great deal not only in monetary terms, but in cultural, educational and emotional terms. Millions of dollars for the best -maybe, but 100 million NO!
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Wynn Wheldon
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:32 am
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of course a painting can be worth 100 million dollars. why should it not? so long as we remember that cost and value are by no means the same thing, we should retain our sanity. chelsea football team, for example, has been very expensively procured; as yet it has won nothing. purchasing a picasso seems eminently more sensible. as for the school or hospital argument, that seems to me fatuous - we all have hates (think how many hospitals might have been built for the money spent on Eastenders over the years; consider the fossil fuels we could save by banning books). most of the great art collections in this country were gathered not by the state but by private individuals, thank god. the state doesn't have any business buying very expensive works of art. the inexorable rise of the state has actually endangered the philanthropic impulse. american traditions of civic responsibility, in which the state hardly figures, are quite different to those of europe, where the state has replaced the aristocracy as the arbiter of our lives. it is no accident that new york, the capital of capitalism, is also the capital of art.
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:32 am
Post subject: is painting worth 100 million?
Isn't there something rather joyous about people who are willing to pay so much for art? If we suspend our cynicism for a second, and allow that some artists do indeed capture the beauty and mystery of the world, then what is that worth? On the one hand, it is worth all the gold and jewels in the world (haven't the fairy tales of our youth taught us that?) On the other hand it is worth nothing. In the sense that such things are not about worth, but just are. The complication comes (forgive the borderline fatuousness) from living in a system of worth, of capitalism, if you like, where people's labours are measured by money. Art comes into this category, as it is a labour which is traditionally charged for. That people are willing to pay so much for a piece of canvas in a wooden frame, means they must attach a deal of importance to the beauty and mystery involved - even if, at the same time, we regard such attaching as misguided. Any uncomrtableness we feel - and there is some - is uncomfortableness with the capitalist system. But we tend to get over that fairly readily, don't we? Vera Brittain said it best, when she called it 'imperfect decency'.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:10 am
Post subject: is painting worth a 100 million dollars
my learned friend mr kean brings a refreshing, though far from naive, note of the joyous to the forum. however, i would like to suggest that art cannot thrive without excessive wealth, and that the best way of creating such excessive wealth is the capitalist way. certainly plenty of great art was created in the pre-capitalist world, but that art tended to the glorificatiion of the church, the state or the noble (in much the same way as communist art worked). like it or not, it is the bourgeoisie that allowed artists to be artists rather than indentured employees. art is a luxury, and luxury costs.
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There doesn't seem to be much recognition of the transaction as a transitive process. Just the paying-out, not the paying-to.
So that a painting being bought for $104 million is simply another consumer item on the shelf, and what you're debating is its accessibility as a commodity.
I'd suggest that paying millions of dollars to the artist who actually painted the work might have some long-term importance.
As opposed to paying that large a sum to someone who was merely clever and crafty enough to get hold of it.
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The real value of a work of art outside of a market situation is something else. I may wonder past 100s of millions of pounds of oil covered canvas in the National Gallery one afternoon, thinking about my dinner date that evening. Or I may stop and look at one work for some time, and thinking about it will make a great difference to me. And I wouldn't care how much it cost.
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btw $ per inch payment model is standard in today's art world, many popular artists like Nikas Safronov sell their woks this way and live good, regarding the subject of the topic, I think no, the value if these works is overestimated.
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I don't think that art has turned into a freak show whatsoever. The painting was clearly worth that much because i believe that history means something. It certainly does to someone like me who studied it at college and school.
History is a big part of human culture and we can't just forget about it in a blink of an eye. It is there to teach our children and there kids somewhere down the line as well.
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There is always a place for history, and this picture was clearly worth something.
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A great piece of history right here.
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I must say, thats a hell of alot for a painting!!
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I don't think any painting is worth that much
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The Coens are two of the aged survivors of the Dust Bowl who share memories of loss and hardship in Burns' film. "I haven't really ever gotten over it," Dale says of Rena Marie in the film, his eyes filled with tears. "It was bad, bad, bad."
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For Burns, whose own mother died from cancer when he was 11, the visit stirred up emotions. "How much of it was grief for my mother, how much of it was empathy for Floyd and Dale, and how much was thinking about a little girl and having little girls (Burns has four, ages 2 to 30) and all of that is mixed in."
The decimation of the soil on the Southern plains in the 1930s, brought on by drought, greed and destructive farming practices, was exacerbated by winds that lifted hundreds of tons of roiling topsoil and sand into the air. It blackened the sky, killed crops and suffocated livestock. Add in Depression economics, and countless farm families were brought to their knees.
Cal Crabill, 88, who lived on a cattle ranch near Holly, Colo., recalls the day school was let out early as a dust storm and clouds began bearing down. "Black, black clouds," he says in an interview. "It was as loud as anything I ever heard, including thunderstorms and a hurricane at sea, and it was great fear."
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After completing 2007's The War, telling the story of World War II through the men and women who lived through it, Burns and his partners realized there was no time to waste locating those who lived through the Dust Bowl. Many of the witnesses would be older than the witnesses to WWII.
Morton County, where the Coens grew up, lies in the geographical heart of the Dust Bowl, millions of acres that included the panhandle of Oklahoma and tangential areas of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas. To find them and other Dust Bowl witnesses, Burns recorded appeals that aired on local PBS stations and held roundtables at retirement homes, assisted living facilities and historical societies. People brought albums and photographs and memories.
They shared their families' stories of hunger, depression, suicides, land forfeitures and sickness. They recalled the dust that covered every inch of their homes, filled their ears and eyes, caused them to cough up mud. How they sat in their homes with damp flour sacks pulled over their heads as they struggled to breathe. The infestations of locusts and rabbits that overran their lands, like biblical plagues.
Like any other boom-and-bust tale, the Dust Bowl is a complicated one, about human nature and mother nature colliding. "It's at its root a story of hubris and the inevitable greed," says Burns. "It was the classic bubbles of real estate, agriculture and market speculation. ... It looked like it would be rosy, that the crop would always come in." But it became, he says, a question of, "What did we do wrong?" Farmers had turned over millions of acres of soil that had been held together by buffalo grass, and when the rain stopped falling, the winds became the enemy.
Burns doesn't draw comparisons to contemporary concerns about drought and global warming, but hopes the film leads people to think about environmental issues. "We just want to tell a good story," he says. "We're not unmindful of the fact that these have resonances in the present, and to say we would hope that the film could itself be a catalyst for conversation of an environmental nature today."
Experts say we probably won't ever see another Dust Bowl, and today's farmers like Roy Bardole are painfully aware of their role as custodians of the soil.
Bardole, 69, of Rippey, Iowa, his wife Phyllis and sons, Peter and Tim, raise corn and soybeans on more than 1,400 acres that have been in their family for five generations. During the Dust Bowl, Bardole says, his father and grandfather had to remove, by hand, the dust that partially buried their crops, blown into Iowa from hundreds of miles to the south. (Bardole, Crabill and Burns participated in the 2012 National Youth Summit on the Dust Bowl in October at the National Museum of American History.)
The Bardoles employ a "no-till" technique that helps the soil absorb and retain moisture. "The agriculture that I embrace is all about the soil. Soil is looked at as dirt to most people, but to me it's a very fragile and very valuable asset. And I must be terribly careful in how I use it."
Burns, a man with a similar passion for his films, says his life leaves little time for anything but work. He lives in Walpole, N.H., in a colonial-style 1820 home with his wife Julie and their daughters, Willa, 2, and Olivia, 7. He has two other daughters, Sarah, 30, and Lilly, 26 from an earlier marriage. His one nod to downtime is doing the New York Times crossword puzzle in ink every day. "Seven days a week, 365 days a year. That's my time to myself," says Burns.
The rest of his time is spent keeping history alive through film. It's an obsession he acknowledges is linked to his mother's death. He says he realized, at one point in his career, that in all his films he "was waking the dead," undoubtedly linked to his loss of a parent from cancer at such an early age.
"What we do is really hard work. We make maple syrup in New Hampshire, and it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. That's sort of like documentary filmmaking," Burns says. "We spend an awful lot of time in the editing room. You've got to be able to know that whole 40 gallons in order to finish the film, and say 'here's the best story we can tell.'"


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Just the other day we did a post on Things Organized Neatly. But some of us aren't so neat. We may separate our edge pieces from our jagged pieces, but otherwise, we're not so organized and prepared. We've got some puzzles for you too! Things that are a little messier, maybe even a little harder because these colors and patterns repeat.
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WHAT: Parrot S.A., a leading provider of mobile multimedia solutions, has licensed the ARM926EJ-S™ processor, along with the PrimeCell® DMA Controller (PL080) the PrimeCell Vectored Interrupt Controller (PL190) and the AMBA® Design Kit. In addition, they have also licensed RealView® prototyping Boards and RealView Development System 3.0, the latest ARM integrated software development suite, for the development of next-generation multimedia products.
WHY: The Jazelle® technology-enabled ARM926EJ-S processor executes an instruction set which includes fixed point DSP instructions to enhance the performance of many signal processing algorithms as well as audio and video encoding applications. Its small size and low power consumption will enable Parrot S.A. to continue to deliver high quality audio and mobile communications devices.
The proven compatibility of the PrimeCell DMA controller and the Vectored Interrupt Controller with the ARM926EJ-S processor reduces design risks, while the AMBA Design Kit facilitates the design and verification of a complete ARM® processor-based system. This will greatly reduce a design's time-to-market, and will enable Parrot S.A. to maintain timely delivery of its products.
WHO: ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tolls, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information about ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ARM, PrimeCell, AMBA, RealView and Jazelle are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. ARM926EJ-S is a trademark of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan Ltd; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; ARM Physical IP, Inc.; and ARM Norway, AS.
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Everett- Wetmore Food Truck Fridays December 29, 2017 11:00 AM - 2:00 PMAdd To Itinerary
The Washington State Food Truck Association partners with the City of Everett to bring you the first food truck lot on Wetmore Avenue. The arts-centric plaza at 2710 Wetmore Avenue, with plenty of outdoor seating, is a location chosen by city planners and will host 2 to 3-trucks at a time. "Food Truck Fridays" (beginning November 4th, 2016), from 11am - 2pm, will run as a pilot program to see if this is a viable location and one that is popular with the community.
To see which trucks will participate, you can access the schedule via Twitter: @wafoodtrucklots, the Association's website or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wafoodtrucklots/ .
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The Resources for Health campaign is focused on meeting the NSP targets for HIV/TB prevention and treatment by 2011 by providing additional resources for health.
The NSP aims to accomplish the following goals by 2011:
Currently the percentage of people being provided for in treatment and prevention efforts are far below these targets. In response to this, the Resources for Health campaign objectives are:
This will require a strictly enforced, needs-based budget and a comprehensive solution to the current human resources crisis in health care-(nurses and health practitioners are understaffed and often inadequately trained).
In July 2009 TAC hosted a march to call attention to these issues
For more information on the Resources for Health campaign
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Alexandra Pelosi's sixth film for HBO is the most potentially emotional, but it also flirts with an awkward line by using children in such a documentary exercise that, clearly, is crafted to make a political point. "The Motel Kids of Orange County" isn't subtle about its message — poverty in the shadow of opulence — and much of it resonates quite powerfully. There are moments, though, when you can't help but feel that the filmmaker's lens is dangerously close to intruding on kids who, frankly, have enough problems without it.
Having spent much of her time on HBO's behalf palling around with Republicans ("Journeys With George") and evangelicals ("Friends of God," "The Trials of Ted Haggard"), the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has chosen her location exceptionally well to compel a sobering look at America's economic inequality. Orange County is not only one of California's richest locales, but it's home to Disneyland — a place many of the kids can see from their dilapidated rooms but have never visited.
Most of the parents are the working poor, forced to live in motels while they hold down minimum-wage jobs. Some of the kids attend Project Hope school, designed to continue their education while they lack a permanent address — a god's-work mission inevitably plagued by issues regarding resources and funding.
These environs can be treacherous, with gangs and drug dealers nearby and advertised "hourly rates" at the motels. There's seldom a safe place for children to play, and eviction is both a constant threat and a scavenging opportunity, given the stuff that's abandoned.
Pelosi deserves credit for putting human faces on what has become a highly partisan debate.
Along the way, the filmmaker captures some genuinely heartbreaking moments. The most painful comes near the end, when a young girl gets sick at school and her father has no gas money to pick her up.
Yet the camera lingers on that tearful face past the point of comfort, until you wish it would cut away for her sake, not the viewers'. In that sequence and others, "Motel Kids" evokes a periodic sense of unease in the nebulous space between wanting to illustrate a worthy point and how to go about doing so when children are involved.


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State agrees to delete toll booth photosBy HUNTER McGEE
Union Leader Correspondent
December 16. 2013 8:39PM
DERRY — The state is looking to change the system of photographing license plates at tolls after a state representative expressed privacy concerns.
State Rep. James Webb said that when he drove through the Hooksett tolls on Interstate 93 recently, he noticed cameras were photographing every vehicle that passed through.
Webb said that the practice violates motorists' rights.
Earl Sweeney, assistant commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Safety, said Monday that the equipment was installed for open road tolling and the E-Z Pass system.
The cameras were added within about the past six months on I-93 in Hooksett and a few other sites in the state by a new provider. The cameras take photos of all license plates, not just the violators of E-ZPass, Sweeney said.
The information is retained for a few hours until it is deleted, he said.
The state is now taking steps to ensure the information is immediately deleted, as long as enough money is available in the motorist's account, Sweeney said. If not, a photograph of the violator's license plate is kept for verification purposes.
New Hampshire has some of the most stringent privacy laws in the nation, Sweeney said.
"So, someone couldn't get in there and find out if Earl Sweeney went to Hooksett or not," Sweeney said.
By law, cameras are designed to photograph only the license plate and a small portion of the vehicle grille and the trunk or hatch section, he said.
The exception sometimes occurs with motorcycles, he said.
The state is working with the vendor to make the changes to the system to ensure the information is immediately deleted, and Sweeney said he expects that process to be completed soon.
"It's a matter of weeks at the most," he said.
Some Derry residents had mixed reactions when told of the cameras at the tolls and the photographing of license plates.
Betsy McCall said she isn't concerned about the presence of the cameras.
"I think we are under camera surveillance almost everywhere we go — whether it's a gas station or the mall or wherever — it's everyplace," McCall said. "I don't care, I really don't care."
Vinny Testa said he has concerns that the cameras could be violating privacy.
"I would say it's probably an invasion of privacy," Testa said.
He said he would like to see the changes made so the license plate information is immediately deleted.


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Animal rescue groups that focus on particular cat breeds are a great adoption resource. Follow-up counseling is often thorough, and fees are usually minimal.
Name: Andy
Age: 5
Owner: Natalia
Hometown: Astoria, NY
My Rescue Story:
Andy is the most adorable kitty I have ever met. I rescued him when he was only 4 weeks old, and though the vet said he wouldn't make it, Andy was a trooper from the start. My apartment in Astoria was too small to keep him -- along with two 14-year-old cats who never liked him -- and at week 9, I had to give him up. He lives in Brooklyn now with another family, but he will always be MY baby.
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9-year-old killed in crash in city of Rockingham
9-year-old killed in crash in city of Rockingham
A 9-year-old boy was killed Saturday night after a speeding car collided with the vehicle he was riding in, police said.
The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. on U.S. 74 in the city of Rockingham, WCNC reported. Three others were taken by helicopter to a Chapel Hill hospital.
The boy was riding with a relative, who was trying to turn onto another road when the collision occurred, police said. The other vehicle had two occupants inside.
Police believe speed was a factor in the crash, while alcohol wasn't. Police also are investigating the possibility that racing was involved.


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As the international community's attention is on Iran's nuclear ambition, human rights violations, especially against non-Muslims in Iran, has increased significantly. Though recognized non-Muslim minorities in Iran (Jews, Christians and Zoroastarians) enjoy a relative freedom, Baha'i and converts from Islam to Christianity face life threatening conditions. Throughout 2006 and 2007, the police continued arbitrary detention and intimidation of converts, often resulting in hefty bails and threats of legal charges of treason, which is punishable by death. More recently, the world watched as Iranian courts ordered the execution of Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani. Advocates around the world joined forces to petition and decry this injustice, and in late 2012 Nadarkhani was released. However, other wrongly imrprisoned Christians continue to face an uncertain future.
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NEWBERRY, N.C. – Kendall Brabson earned her first win of the season from the circle in a complete game win then followed with a three-RBI day in their game two victory over the Newberry College Wolves. King swept the Wolves to improve their overall record to 4-2 on the young season.
GAME ONE: King 3, Newberry 2
Brabson, a native of Bean Station, Tenn., tossed all seven innings in their game one victory allowing only two runs, one earned. The senior struck out three Newberry hitters and cruised through her final four innings of work after allowing only one runner on base in her final 13 batters faced.
Newberry scored the game's first run in the second inning with a two-out, RBI single by Brittany Phillips, but King was quick to get the run back plus two. Chrissy Melcher (Orlando, Fla.) started the rally with an infield single and the top of the order followed suit with singles by Aubrey Hutt (Bristol, Va.) and Stephanie Rodriguez (Lake Mary, Fla.) to get the first run on the board. The Lady Tornado's aggressive base running on Hutt's infield single placed runners at second and third with one out. Rodriguez but down a suicide squeeze, scoring Melcher, and more aggressive base running putting runners back on second and third with a tie ballgame.
Cassie Ringstaff followed up with a single to the right side of the infield, scoring Rodriguez and giving King a 2-1 lead before Brabson added to the score with a run scoring, sacrifice fly to left field.
Newberry cut into the lead when Monica Buccellato hit a run scoring, infield single to bring the lead to one, but Brabson kept the Wolves in check by allowing only one runner on base from that point on. She finished the game retiring the last seven batters in a row, leading to a 3-2 final score.
GAME TWO: King 5, Newberry 1
Rachel Wilmoth (Morristown, Tenn.) took the win in game two after tossing a complete game of her own, allowing one run on five hits and striking out one. After allowing one run in the third inning, the sophomore settled in and retired 11 of her last 12 batters faced.
Brabson continued the shine by getting it done at the plate with her first home run of the season, a two-run shot pulled over the right field fence to help the Lady Tornado to a 2-0, third-inning lead. After Newberry halved the lead with Phillips' second RBI single of the day, Melcher batted in Fallon Thomas from second base with a single to center field.
King added to the lead when Cassie Ringstaff belted her second home run of the season with a shot to center field, scoring Aubrey Hutt to give the Lady Tornado a 5-1 lead they held until the final out was recorded.
Ringstaff finished the day as one of two players to record three RBI. The Richlands, Va., native went 2-for-7 with a stolen base and a walk over the course of the doubleheader. Brabson went 2-for-5 with three ribbies and a home run.
The Lady Tornado improve to 4-2 overall this season and will play two more regional games on Thursday, Feb. 23, against the Carson-Newman Eagles in a home doubleheader beginning at 1:30 p.m. They will open Conference Carolinas play at Erskine College (Due West, S.C.) on Feb. 25.


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The Philosophy and Religion Department speaks to the core of the higher education, to the values that underlie Western culture and indeed to the values that make all cultures and civilizations possible. These values center on the perennial questions: what is the true; what is the beautiful; and what is the good? There are no cultures without these concerns.
These questions, in turn, require a reflection on the nature of the human being, and on the examination of the person who asks questions. "Know thyself" was inscribed on the Greek temples of Apollo and reminds us that all human destiny and the human wisdom that guides it faces in two directions: toward God, gods or ultimate values and toward the seeker and the eloquence needed to guide the search. The department is devoted to teaching these transcendental skills, to the critical thinking and expression that this two-fold task requires.
The college student in all coursework thinks, reads, and writes, but philosophy and religion are specifically directed toward the center of these abilities to thinking about thinking, to questioning what is read, and to examining critically the ways and means of expressions. Thus, our philosophy and religion major is quite compatible with most other majors or minors. It is not uncommon for students in, for example, physics, pre-law, English and history to be a philosophy and religion major or minor.


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Cube steaks are an easy solution, because they are inexpensive and cook in a matter of minutes. What? You've never had a cube steak?
NOTE: Mushrooms would be a perfect addition, to the gravy. Unfortunately, my husband doesn't get excited over mushrooms as much as I do.
This is very simple comfort food, on the table in less than 30 minutes. Pinkie promise. By the way, egg noodles or rice would work very well with this steak and gravy.
VERDICT: Something quite surprising happened, when my husband sat down and took his first bite. This is a true story-- Craig had a faraway look in his eyes. Very much like the scene from the movie "Ratatouille", where the feared food critic is served a French comfort food dish. My husband smiled, and said that the dinner I made reminded him of his childhood in Kansas City, MO. He remembered that his mom used to make a dinner that tasted just like this one. Suffice it to say, that my husband loved every bite, and I was so pleased that he enjoyed it as much as he did. As for me, this dinner reminded me of the Banquet TV dinners that my mother used to heat in the oven, when I was a kid-- yes, that was before microwaves were invented, but I was born after the horse and carriage.
It's funny how some of the most impromptu, inexpensive and fast dinners can be the one's that demand an encore. My husband asked me to make it, again, the very next night. So, I decided to grab my camera, measure out the ingredients and share it with my readers. Who knows, you might have a Ratatouille Moment of your own?
A printable recipe card is at the end of this post.


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The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, often called "Alaska in miniature", is home to a wide diversity of wildlife including moose, eagles, brown and black bears, lynx, wolves, and trumpeter swans. See our SPECIES LIST of the flora and fauna documented on the Refuge.
Ice Fields & Glaciers - The
eastern portion of the refuge descends from the 6,500 Harding Ice Field to
2,000 to 4,000 ft. peaks in the western Kenai Mountains. Ice fields and
glaciers are vital sources of fresh water for wildlife and people. Mountain
goats, brown bears and ravens have been sighted crossing glaciers and on
nunataks - exposed mountains projecting above the glacial ice.
Ice worms are a little known
inhabitant of temperate glacial ice ranging in length from 1 to 3 cm. Moving
between crystals of ice and through the many interconnected channels in
granular snow, ice worms generally stay near the surface of glaciers. Most
species of ice worms rise to the surface at dusk while other live in puddles of
glacial meltwater. Ice worms eat airborne pollen grains, fern spores and the
red algae that lives in snow and sometimes colors it pink.
Mountain Tundra- Tree line ends at
1,500 to 2,000 ft. with low growing tundra plants and shrubs continuing in
elevation to snow and rock fields at 4,000 ft. Dall sheep, mountain goats, and
caribou roam this rugged country. Hoary marmots form colonies on talus slopes.
Brown bears graze for berries and occasionally take marmots and sheep. Wolves
and golden eagles have been known to be successful hunters of young sheep.
Wolverines scavenge the carcasses of dead sheep and goats.
Northern Boreal Forest- From sea
level to 2,000 ft., the northern boreal forest is found on the refuge. This
forest is composed predominately of white and black spruce, birch, aspen, and
cottonwood trees in various stages of succession. This forest is an important
source of food and shelter for moose, black and brown bears, lynx, wolves, coyotes,
porcupine, weasels, red squirrels and snowshoe hares. This habitat is an
important nesting area for summer migrants including orange-crowned and myrtle
warblers, olive-sided flycatchers, fox sparrows, ruby crowned kinglets, and
Swainson's and hermit thrushes. Local resident birds include great horned owls,
hairy and downy woodpeckers, spruce grouse, red-breasted nuthatches, and boreal
and black-capped chickadees.
Lakes & Wetlands- The
northeastern portion of the refuge is dotted with hundreds of small lakes
surrounded by wetland tundra or spruce/hardwood forest hills. This large
wetland habitat supports migratory breeding birds including common and pacific
loons, grebes, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, ducks, and shorebirds. Mammals
found within this habitat include caribou, moose, beaver, muskrat, and mink.
The lakes support a variety of fish species, such as rainbow trout, arctic
char, red and silver salmon, and sticklebacks.
Within this habitat, the Chickaloon
River Flats remains the last pristine major saltwater estuary on the Kenai
Peninsula. The Flats serves as a staging area for thousands of shorebirds and
Rivers- The refuge is drained by
nine river systems, including the world famous Kenai River, renowned for its
wide variety of sport fish including Chinook (king), sockeye (red), and coho
(silver) salmon, and Dolly Varden and rainbow trout. Bald eagles are often
sighted perched in tall cottonwoods along the riverbanks. Brown and black bears
are attracted to the rich fish resources in summer and fall. Moose, beaver, and
mergansers are commonly seen wildlife along refuge river systems.


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"I am honored to serve as the 28th president of the University of Cincinnati." Ono said. "I am not a new face on campus, but in many ways, the fact that I have been a part of the UC family for two years now makes today even more special for me. I am so very fortunate to be asked to serve in this capacity."
|President Santa Jeremy Ono
"Dr. Ono impressed the search committee and the Board of Trustees with his apparently unlimited energy and enthusiasm," said Board Chair C. Francis Barrett. "He has, in his brief term as interim president, made the extra effort to be accessible to all of the university's constituencies – especially our students – and has demonstrated that he values consensus. His efforts are based on a university in which students occupy the center of all of our activities, and where learning is paramount. He understands, as a faculty member, the importance of our academic mission."
Ono first arrived at UC in 2010, serving two years as the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. As provost, he led the development of an academic master plan aligned to the university's strategic plan, "UC2019: Accelerating Our Transformation." The academic master plan, unveiled in May 2012, included an initial investment of about $10 million toward long-term strategic goals set for completion in UC's bicentennial year of 2019. President Ono is one of a handful of university presidents in the nation who have fully embraced social media and has more than 6,700 followers of his Twitter feed: @PrezOno.
With his appointment, Ono became the first Asian-American president in UC's history. He is among a very few Asian-American presidents of U.S. universities.
Ono also serves as professor of pediatrics within UC's College of Medicine and professor of biology in UC's McMicken College of Arts and Sciences. Ono's principal research interests focus on transcriptional regulation in the human immune system, mechanisms of mast cell dependent inflammation on the ocular surface and the immune component of age-related macular degeneration.
Prior to his recruitment by UC, Ono served at Emory University as Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy to the Provost and then Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs. He also served as professor in the ophthalmology department in the Emory University School of Medicine. His first academic appointment was at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. While at Johns Hopkins, he won the American Diabetes Association Career Development Award and the Investigator Award from the National Arthritis Foundation.
In 1996, Ono was recruited to the Harvard Medical School, where he was an associate professor and on staff at the Schepens Eye Research Institute. He was a member of the executive committee of the Harvard Program in Immunology and a principal investigator of the Harvard Program in Ocular Immunology. He also served on the executive committee of the NIH Training Program in Molecular Bases of Eye Diseases.
Following his Harvard appointments, Ono served as Cumberlege Professor and GlaxoSmithKline Chair of Biomedical Sciences at University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Hospital; head of the Department of Immunology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology; on the executive committee of the UCL Division of Infection and Immunity; and as Associate Dean of Students, a member of the UCL Council (the university's governing body) and its finance committee.
Ono's service outside of the university includes the boards of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Japan-America-Society and the Alois Alzheimer's Society. He chairs the board of the Global H.E.E.D (Promoting Health, Education and Economic Development) and co-chairs the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Early Grade-Level Reading Campaign. He is a member of the Chancellor's Ohio Completion Task Force of the Ohio Board of Regents as well as the Executive Committee of the STRIVE partnership and served on the Board of Advisors for Strive for College. He has served on the Medical Research Council's Medical Advisory Board and College of Experts and the IMS and HAI study sections of the NIH. He consults widely for companies such as GSK, Cambridge Antibody Technologies plc (now part of Astra Zeneca), Johnson & Johnson, Santen Inc. and Oxagen plc. He is chief scientific officer of iCo Therapeutics Inc., of Vancouver, Canada.
As a scholar and researcher, Ono has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Immunology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Immunology and the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology. Among his many honors are the Brit Katz Award from Emory University, the Roche Laboratories Award for Excellence in Research, the Pharmacia International Award in Allergy Research and the Medal in Bronze from Osaka City University.
Ono earned his Ph.D. at McGill University and his BA at the University of Chicago. His training in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard was supported by a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship.


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I've heard her tell it dozens of times but I never tire of the story. When Keri deGuzman tells people about the remarkable journey she and her husband, cardiothoracic surgeon Brian deGuzman, M.D., took to adopt their four Ethiopia-born children, she is transformed.
Any pre-event jitters evaporate as soon as she begins to talk. There is no place for discomfort she may feel about public speaking. This isn't about her. It's not even about the four beautiful children that she and Brian are raising, though the children are the underpinning for her amazing and still-evolving story.
When Keri speaks, it's about the millions of other children. The ones who don't have clean homes and nutritious foods and the chance for meaningful education or productive lives. The orphans of Ethiopia.
Keri will share her Ethiopia adoption story at 10:30am tomorrow (Saturday, April 23) at Scottsdale's Mustang Library. I'll be with her, adding what I can about my experience traveling with her and Brian to Ethiopia last summer, when they welcomed their two youngest children, Solomon and Tesfanesh, into their family.
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Best Honda Repair near Thomson
Find certified Honda repair shops and mechanics near you
4481 Washington Rd
4481 Washington Rd, Evans
Closed Now
(706) 609-3172
187 Baston Rd
187 Baston Rd, Martinez
Closed Now
(706) 550-6210
1628 Gordon Hwy
1628 Gordon Hwy, Augusta
Closed Now
(706) 609-3372
Convenient for customers in Boneville, Camak, Dearing, Mesena, Norwood, and Warrenton
Learn more about Honda auto repair in Thomson
Mechanics at RepairPal Certified shops average over 20 years of experience servicing Honda vehicles. Find repair costs, common problems, recalls, and more for Honda models.
The average cost of Honda repair in Thomson is: $674.24
Nationwide: $602.60
The average RepairPal Certified Shop rating in Thomson is an B+
Nationwide: B+
The best day to schedule a repair in Thomson is: Monday
Nationwide: Monday
The most common Honda repaired in Thomson is: Honda Civic
Nationwide: Honda Civic
The average hourly cost of labor in Thomson is: $104.86
Nationwide: $104.86
The most common Honda repair in Thomson is: Water Pump Replacement
Nationwide: Head Gasket Replacement


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